#uma

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#given #heart #human #human heart #i

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#back #brought #chance #commission #crimes

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#faint #first #get #here #human

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#deep #deep love #future #human #human race

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. ↗

— Robert Orben

#blame #computer #err #even #human

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it. ↗

— Beth Orton

#dance #dance music #element #human #human element

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ↗

— George Orwell

#boot #face #forever #future #human

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #beings #demand #get #human

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

#aspire #beings #felt #genuinely #human